Halloween: idioms of fear

Hello folks. This time I am going to dare you guess the three idioms (expressions whose meanings can't be inferred from the meanings of the words that make them up) that this misterious man explains talking about Halloween. You should hand me a brief composition with a scary story using the three idioms and the past simple and past continuous tenses in it before Thursday 7th November. Don't forget to decorate the sheet of paper and write your name on it!  Click on the following link to watch the video.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/the_teacher/mp4/teacher_halloween.mp4

3º Diversificación: Introduce yourself

This is the first online activity that my Diversificación students have done this school year. They introduced themselves with the help of Oddcast PhotoFace.
These are the links of some of the results of this assignment:

http://host-d.oddcast.com/photofacev2/?mId=50215354.3

http://host-d.oddcast.com/php/application_UI/doorId=357/clientId=1/?mId=50215338.3

http://host-d.oddcast.com/photofacev2/?mId=50215357.3

I invite you to check them out. Congratulations, you did a good job!

3º & 4º Diversificación: EnglishCentral

My Diversificación students are working hard on a speaking & listening-based project through which I put them to a weekly test. They must reach the goals that I set every week by watching and speaking some videos. Thanks to this online tool they can improve enormously their oral skills in English. You can check out their development by clicking on these links:

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/3diversificacion

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/11017-colegio-montpellier/4diversificacion

4º Diversificación: phone conversation

Hello again!
This is a speaking activity that I prepared in Voicethread.com for my 4º Diversificación students. They had to record several phone conversations.

 

They have done a great job!

3º & 4º Diversificación: Glogster Edu

By the end of the first term my Diversificación students worked on a couple of interesting topics: 'Household items' and 'Sports'. Each of them created a poster with the help of an outstanding online tool called Glogster. Here are some examples of the superb outcome of this activity:

elenamartin
dikramohamed
miguelbravo
Rober1995

They are really made of the good stuff!

Learning English through music: Lyrics training

Lyrics training is a great tool for students to improve their understanding of lyrics. The site includes YouTube videoclips which are organised in different levels of difficulty and cloze-type activities to complete the whole song.

Dickens bicentenary webtask

In 2012 celebrations all over the world, especially in Great Britain, have been held to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. This is the webtask I have prepared:

http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=164918

Write your answers on a separate blank sheet, you have to add at least two famous quotations by Dickens. The deadline to hand it in is the last lesson we will have before Christmas. Come on, give it a try!

Christmas: Treasure hunt

This is the 'treasure hunt' that I dare you do. Go to the following website:
http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm

Find the answers to these questions:

1. What do men in Bangladesh plant outside their homes at Christmas time?
2. How many dishes do Bulgarians eat for Christmas dinner?
3. What is carol singing called in Welsh?
4. People in Ethiopia eat Doro wat at Christmas. What is it?
5. Who wears white robes and a golden crown at Christmas in Germany?
6. What do people wear to mass on Christmas Eve in Malta?
7. Norwegians eat sand kagers at Christmas time. What are they?
8. Who reads a story on Christmas Eve in Syria?
9. What does the Ukranian Cristmas carol Boh predvichny mean?
10. What is St Stephen's Day in Ireland?

Write your answers on a separate blank sheet, you have to decorate it with some Christmas drawings. The deadline to hand it in is the first lesson we will have next week (either Monday 17 or Tuesday 18). Come on, have a go!

3º Diversificación: British epals

This term our 3º Diversificación students are going to start up an exchange with British students from a school located in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in the north of England. This is their school webpage:

http://www.ashville.co.uk/

Our students are going to keep up with their respective epals via e-mails under the supervision of the teacher. This exchange is kept thanks to the following organization:

http://www.epals.com/

This is the first time we are going to establish such an activity with a British school. It is challenging and our students are going to learn a lot, that's for sure!

Thanksgiving

On Thursday 22nd November Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. This is the presentation I have shown you in class:

Thanksgiving from jagsombrero
I dare you do the following quiz after reading the history of this festivity clicking on this link:

http://wilstar.com/holidays/thankstr.htm

The Thanksgiving Quiz » Make Your Own Quiz

2º ESO / 4º Diversificación: Sports in the British Isles

This is a presentation I have made about some typical sports in the British Isles (UK and Ireland). It can help you understand the basic rules of them.

Sports in the British Isles on Prezi

invite you to watch it!!

2º ESO / 4º Diversificación: Flyboard

In this video made by the BBC you can learn about Flyboard (a thrilling new sport) and vocabulary related to sports. I encourage you to watch it and do the exercise that there is with it.

Click on the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/aprenda_ingles/2012/10/121003_video_aprenda_ingles_fly_sc.shtml

4º Diversificación: Our trip to an English-speaking country

My 4º Diversificación students have taken fictional trips to different English-speaking countries. It is worth taking a look at these trips!

Our favourite music in Wallwisher

This is the wall that our 4º Diversificación students have created to welcome the English students that are coming on March 21st to their class. You can see their favourite music with videos on it. Hope you enjoy it!


http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/ourfavouritemusic4E

These students are really made of the right stuff!!

Introducing myself

This is a sample of the several introductions that my 3º Diversificación had to prepare in Blabberize.com. It is good fun for sure!

2º ESO & Diversificación 'Christmas traditions' webtask

This is a webtask that I have created for all my 2ºESO and Diversificación students:


http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=159473


Write your answers on a separate blank sheet, you have to decorate it with some Christmas drawings. The deadline to hand it in is the last lesson we will have next week (either Thursday 15 or Friday 16). Come on, have a go!


MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Diversificación: English Central

Currently both courses of Diversificación (3º and 4º) are doing an interesting course to improve their speaking and listening skills. These are the webpages:


http://es.englishcentral.com/class/3diversificacion

http://es.englishcentral.com/class/4diversificacion

It is amazing to see how hard they are working!


Practice makes perfect!